Posted on 09/12/2023 6:38:49 PM PDT by Morgana
A first grader in Alabama was suspended after using his finger as a mock gun and saying 'bang bang' while playing with a friend - as school officials forced him to sign a punishment slip with his blocky name.
Six-year-old Jackson Belcher was forced to sign a Class III infraction document for 'threat and intimidation' after he 'used his fingers to shoot at another student' during a lighthearted game of cops and robbers at his elementary school in Jefferson County, Alabama.
His father, Jerrod Belcher, said it 'infuriated him' that his son was basically 'interrogated' before being 'made to confess' and sign his name.
Belcher said his son was 'terrified' and 'pretty shaken up' about the interrogation. .
Now, the family is considering legal action because of the school's actions that humiliated the boy and family.
The infraction that little Jackson was required to sign is equivalent to charges of arson, assault, robbery, bomb threats and explosives, Belcher family attorney M. Reed Marts told Fox News.
A Class III infraction is considered the most serious by the school system and results in students being unable to return to school grounds until a conference is held to discuss the violation.
The Gun Owners of America organization has threatened legal action if the incident wasn't removed from the child's record.
A letter from the group demanded that any record of the activities of infraction against Jackson be removed along with any account of related disciplinary action.
It also demanded that the existing policy that led to the improper punishment of the first-grade student should be publicly amended to allow age-appropriate play for children so that other kids aren't unfairly penalized for innocent games.
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Their probably democrats, you know how stupid they are!
Tarring and feathering works too.
Nope, sadly.
But, if he had pulled down his pants, waved his thing around, and said, ‘bang, bang’, he would be Student of the Month!
He is under 18 so a parent should have been there. Was he allowed to request legal representation, that was a serious chare. At least in the mindless democrats.
It’s all part of the war on young males.
Pull him out and home school him while he’s still normal.
Charles Bronson raises a different finger.
I doubt the media is accurately reporting this story.
Like that kid who bit the corner of his pop tart and was accused of making a gun. Good thing he didn’t have an outline of Florida which looks like a gun or CA which looks like a hi-cap mag.
The trauma already happened to the poor kid, sue more for his rehab.
He’s five years old!!
Or when he was given the 3d degree?
#ing Rats
Hey! It had a nail on the end of his finger.
Richard Cranium is the school principal? I had to scroll up to see if this was from the Bee.
The Anti Christian Lawyers Union? They're too busy attacking our religion.
What do you want to bet he was called 'Dick Head' all through school.
These morons are teaching our kids!
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